What is your city's nick name

[HEyHEY]

Vancouver has a couple..they all are kinda lack luster...

Towel Town - Because Vancouver fans started the white towel waving at hockey games.

Hollywood North - obvious answer

We need a cool nickname...what's your town's?

[SOteric]

1. Has been called the "Jet City" since 1962, but calls itself

the 'Emerald City' for a few years now as part of some tourism campaign.

[PinkTiger]

43. You must live in Wichita, Kansas!

Right?

[SOteric]

64. Not even slightly.

:-)

[flamingyouth]

46. Yep - formerly the Jet City, now the Emerald City

And no, I'm not a munchkin.

[jono]

104. Don't forget

the "City of Seven Hills," despite the disagreement about which hills may have been included in the original seven.

http://www.historylink.org/_output.CFM?file_ID=4131

[NaMeaHou]

2. Half Empty Bucket 'O' Crap

Home sweet home.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. K-Town...

Kingfisher was known as K-Town...We even had what they called the K-town Mafia. They weren't dangerous...just some guys that dressed up and painted their faces for games.
Duckie

[Kathy in Cambridge]

4. The People's Republic of Cambridge

[Syrinx]

5. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is...

the Druid City. Scary, huh? :scared:

[Catshrink]

6. Valley of the Dumb

Phoenix....

[Fridays Child]

13. About 120 miles north of the Naked Pueblo

Well, actually that nickname is a little obscure. More people know Tucson as the Old Pueblo.

[pasadenaboy]

7. Pasadena, CA

Is the rose city.

Makes sense with the rose parade, rose bowl, etc.

[Syncronaut Seven]

51. So is Portland, OR

Although some know it affectionately as Puddletown, Stumptown or Little Beiruit. A reference to Poppy's reception here some years ago.

[LiviaOlivia]

68. Some call it Pornland, Or. also

due to the large number of strip clubs, adult video stores and misc
pervs.

[Syncronaut Seven]

118. Yea but

Here the strippers wear overcoats!

[trackfan]

115. Isn't Pasadena also called the Crown City?

Some businesses use that name, e.g., Crown City Brewery, and Crown City Fencing

[HEyHEY]

8. oh wait som ehip-hop people call Vancouver Van-city..but

That's the name of a Bank up here..so I don't dig it.

[Catshrink]

9. You don't, eh?

How about "eh, town"?

[HEyHEY]

14. should be "Eh country"

I mean ...after a bank..how geeky

[ajacobson]

10. Detroit

When I first came to Detroit to work in the labor movement in mid 1987, driving east on I-94, the first thing I saw as I hit the city limits was the city limits sign. Somebody spray painted on it "war zone".

That's always stuck with me.

[Catshrink]

11. Motown?

[ajacobson]

79. Or

Detroit - The Paris of Southeast Michigan.

hee hee

[bif]

84. Or...

the Gateway to Canada!

[Wonk]

12. I've heard it referred to as "Hongcouver" as well, fwiw,

due to the large number of Asian immigrants who now call it home, or who have homes on both sides of the Pacific. That particular nickname is kinda racist, though, come to think of it...

[HEyHEY]

15. yeah people call it that too

[kixot]

16. The Venice of America

Fort Lauderdale.

[dobak]

17. Hmm.. Isn't Vancouver just a suburb of Seattle?

:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)

[Catshrink]

18. Ouch!

-- eh?

[HEyHEY]

19. Actually people here say Vancouver is everything Seattle wants to be

true dat!

[Catshrink]

22. Could be....

Check this out:

http://members.cox.net/impunity/endofworld.swf

there's a little Canadian humor in it.

[HEyHEY]

26. that was funny

hahaha

[dobak]

24. I've never been awake in Vancouver...

I did pass through there on a fishing trip to Vancouver Island though.

[HEyHEY]

27. too bad...it's a nice town

[rustydog]

20. "The Palm Springs of Washington"!

We even have a billboard on the freeway making the claim.

I have a sneaking suspicion that Palm Springs does not have a
"The Yakima of California" sign in their town!

[mitchtv]

35. Palm Springs? maybe not Yakima

but little Washington maybe. Right now its full of washingtonians and BC'rs Where do thos Canadians learn to drive anyway?

[Melsky]

36. You are correct

Palm Springs is the closest city to me, and I'm sorry to admit that if it has a nickname, I don't know it. San Diego, where I used to live, billed itself as America's Finest City. I always thought that was an obnoxious choice.

[Syncronaut Seven]

57. San Diego's would be a nice town...

If it weren't for all those San Diegans. I can say that can't I?

Poway High, Class of '81

[mitchtv]

113. Boneyard Springs,, I've heard that

unlfattering nickname.

[flamingyouth]

53. LOL - is it filled with old crabby people?!?

With horrible golf pants?!?

[soleft]

21. The Big Apple

[dobak]

28. Mini Apple

Minneapolis, MN

[dweller]

23. Hippie Hill

used to be anyway...
aka the Zoo.

dp

[populistmom]

25. Silk City

Because my town used to have large silk mills up until about 50-75 years ago.
It's Manchester, CT by the way, which is now referred to by me as Monotonous Mallville Suburban Hell.

[VelmaD]

29. Austin is the "Live Music Capital...

of the World".

Our unofficial city motto - "Keep Austin Weird".

Austin, TX is a great fuckin' town. :-)

[GOPisEvil]

54. I really should read through threads before posting.

:spank:

[alexwcovington]

30. Minot: The Magic City

It was a tent town on the railroad.... one day it was an open field... the next the Great Northern Railway was making camp for the winter.

[Rowdyboy]

31. "City of Lights...Cameras...Action..."

Canton (Mississippi)-approximately 7 movies have been filmed here since the 1970 including "A Time to Kill", "Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "My Dog Skip".

[Endangered Specie]

32. "city of oaks"

and our neighbor Cary=confinment area for relocated yankees (its in NC)

[SmileyBoy]

33. Fargo: Gateway To The West.

Screw St. Louis. They're too far east to be called that.

[Ilsa]

34. Freeperville, Tx

Might as well be.

My dh and I and two others were the only four out of five hundred to vote Dem in 1994 midterms.

And people wonder why I'm afraid to put a bumpersticker on my car.

[Mikimouse]

39. And I thought that I lived in freeperville...maybe

there's more than one in Texas? Wouldn't surprise me a bit! Where are you?

[Ilsa]

122. Victoria, 100 miles from Houston.

I think it is getting better, but the Dems are pretty quiet in letters to the editor. There is a massive campaign to counterattqack anyone who writes dissenting liberal opinions. Your business can easily fail here over political leanings.

[ironflange]

37. Calgary has two

Cowtown

Stampede City



I prefer Cowtown, myself.

[FloridaJudy]

38. "Hog Town" - Gainesville, Florida

I haven't a clue why - we have no pig farms or packing plants - but I rather like it. It's unpretentious and earthy.

[Sean Reynolds]

40. Salt Lake City:

City of Saints - LDS Church
Wasatch Front - Wasatch Mountains
SLC - Salt Lake City
Gateway to the West

[Kolesar]

107. Does that mean that it is also the Gateway to East?

If you are facing in the other direction?
(that was an Edward Abbey quip).

[DemoTex]

41. Rosman, NC is ""TOWN":

"Town" (as in "lets go to town for a gallon of gasoline").

Good things about Rosman (pronounced Roz-man):

1. It has a Post Office
2. The vegetable stand on US 178
3. Access to the French Broad River
4. It is smaller than Mayberry, RFD. Much smaller. Much-much smaller!
5. The High School band practices in a cow pasture (I saw them there!).
6. Becky's Cafe for breakfast.
7. No beer/wine sales on Sunday (ditto rest of Transylvania county) No biggie. Plan ahead or buck-up for a long drive into Asheville after church on Sunday. (actually, beer/wine sales are legal in Transylvania county after 1pm on Sunday. Only thing is, the religiously insane have all the stores with licences sufficiently intimidated to keep EtOH off-limits on the day they think Jesus prefers. Obviously Jesus could buy wine on religious holidays. Or else someone bought it for him for the "Last Supper."
8. Only two traffic lights in Rosman. Looooooooooooong lights. In Texas, 4-way stops would be overkill at these intersections. But WTH!
9. Mexican restaurant/laundermat. Hmmmm. Shades of Houston.
10. Should be #1 actually. Or seriously, I should say. The Rosman VFD. I've talked to a couple of these guys on the phone. They know exactly how to get to my place, about ten miles away in the wilds, and what ailments my wife and I have (few). They also know that I am a ham radio operator with a 9kW generator. They are my link to life.

[lynndew2]

42. I am not in the city limits but

KC is known as the city of fountian

Today we could also be the city of ABB- Anyone But Bengals:P

[Sting]

44. Mo-Town

or "Bumfuck, USA."
Sting

[Ramsey]

45. Philly

Basically because Philadelphia is a pain in the butt to type!

[Insider]

47. B-more is 'Charm City'

but i'm 45 miles north in the 'the city by the bay'

[flamingyouth]

55. I love Charm City!

And I've read all the Laura Lippman books....

[Champion Jack]

48. The armpit of the world

Los Angeles

[jus_the_facts]

49. The Twin Cities....Monroe/West Monroe...we're known for....

...having been the first place Coca Cola was put in bottles...also Delta Airlines first flew out of here....also we have the largest natural gas reserves! Woop Woop!! :D

[grannylib]

93. Minneapolis/St Paul also known as Twin Cities

[GOPisEvil]

50. Live music capital of the world.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/

[CanuckAmok]

52. You forgot "Brollywood"! n/t

[HEyHEY]

56. You mean "Bollywood"

[CanuckAmok]

58. Oh, no..."Brolly", as in "Umbrella"

Bollywood is India.

[HEyHEY]

61. ah okay...that's a new one..I thought maybe...people called it

Bollywood because of the East Indians here

[CanuckAmok]

62. I've also heard "Hongcouver", but I think of that as a slur.

Nanaimo, FWIW, is "The Harbour City"

[HEyHEY]

63. Ever heard the expression "Wearing full Nanaimo"

It refers to dorks that dress up in naval gear to captain their personal crafts.

[CanuckAmok]

69. HAHAHAHA! Sooooo fitting. n/t

[HamstersFromHell]

59. Music City, USA

If you're really into country, I suppose.

Hammies!

[Leftist78]

60. Spartanburg, SC

Sparkle City. I've been finding this nickname ironic lately. The only thing I can find around here that sparkles are the BMW's that roll out of the factory just outside of town that all the unemployed textile workers can't afford.

Freeperville is a good one for this place too.

[Bossy Monkey]

67. They're trying to change it to Hub City

much to the amusement of everybody outside Spartanburg County

[Leftist78]

71. I've heard that too.

but the only thing I've heard it used for is that book about the local music from Spartanburg Hub City Musicmakers. It's pretty good. Being a part of the scene here I know a lot of people in the book so that's ok.

I also heard it used for the Hub City Writers Project.

[kayell]

110. Electric City

right down the highway in Anderson, SC. Named during it's heyday because it was the first fully electrified city in the south. Fallen on hard times too.

[5thGenDemocrat]

65. The Center of the Universe

Saginaw, Michigan.
John
We used to be known as "Timbertown" years ago (in 1885 or so, we produced more timber than any other city in the US). There's a certain cachet amongst the youngsters today to call it "Sag-Nasty (ooh, sounds tough)," but I resist the temptation to do so myself.

[PittPoliSci]

66. Iron City, Steel City, etc...

or my personal favorite, even though I don't really feel this way, it just makes me laugh...

SHITSBURGH!

[Bossy Monkey]

70. OhMyGodGetMeOutOfThisPlace!!!!!!!!!!!!! (kidding)

Columbia doesn't rate a nickname. They've tried a number of lame slogans (A Capital Place To Be, the highly ridiculed It's Happening Now, and the even more highly ridiculed We're On Fire) but nicknames apparently are beyond our skills. Sometimes called Colatown, but I'm not sure that nicknames that are longer than the original name truly count.

[Scurrilous]

72. Miami: The Magic City.

...I wonder how much they paid some publicist to come up with that catchy little moniker? At least twenty dollars American.

[jsw_81]

73. Seattle

Queen City, Jet City, Emerald City

Freepers like to call it "Sodom on the Sound" because of the large gay community. :eyes:

[Hawkeye-X]

75. Mile High City

Guess what that is!!!

[HEyHEY]

76. sodom on the sound..sounds like a sweet bar

[rppper]

74. "the worlds most famous beach"

...daytona beach, florida......

should be called"the worlds most famous beach...which is obscured by hundreds of time-share condos"

or...

NASCARna beach florida....

or...

crackhead beach florida

or...

new york/new jersey south

or...

orlando by the sea/orlando east

2 huge biker events, 2 major nascar events, 3 months worth of spring breaks...total tourist trap...highest gas prices, lowest wages, huge homeless population...nice place to visit but unless you're a tough SOB...you wouldn't wanna' live here.....

[Padraig18]

77. "Amazing Arcola"

The nickname comes from pride in the town on several levels: good schools, well-kept infrastructure, one of the 'greenest' cities in the state, a diverse local economy, low-crime, etc. .

[tsakshaug]

78. Rochester NY

Flower City-It was flour city because this area was "the breadbasket of the country" back when the country was small, so the COC type of people changed it to flower after awhile.
The Image Capitol of the world -Kodak and Xerox are here.

I actually live near there in Avon. It should be called the per capita teenage heroin OD death capitol.-small town 3 in two years

[mac56]

80. "The Classic City"

Athens, GA.

[WoodrowFan]

81. DC-Center of the Universe. (NT)

[CO Liberal]

82. Pueblo, CO - "Steel City" or "The Home of Heroes"

"Steel City" because of the steel mill, which was build to make rails for the railroads. At one time, Pueblo was called "The Pittsburgh of the West".



It's also called "The Home of Heroes" because four men from Pueblo have won the Congressional Medal of Honor. President Eisenhower once asked one of them is there was "something in the water in Pueblo" that produced so many heroes.



The new signs along I-25.



"Heroes Plaza" in downtown Pueblo, featuring statues of Pueblo's four Medal of Honor winners.

Mre info here:

http://www.homeofheroes.com/

[mark0rama]

83. 64 square miles surrounded by reality

Madison, WI

Most people who say this mean it as an insult, but if what's out there is reality, I'll take the alternative anyday.

[MissMillie]

85. Beantown (n/t)

.

[Monte Carlo]

95. But don't ever call it that in Boston...

Unless you wanna look like a tourist.

[Loonman]

121. Yep

Nobody who lives here calls it Beantown.

Nobody except newscasters call it "the Hub".

[underpants]

86. "The River City" or "The living joke" if you've seen a citycouncil meeting

Richmond Va. Honestly people have dinner/cocktail parties to watch the insanity at city hall every Monday night.

[Palacsinta]

87. Red Rose City

Lancaster, PA......York, right down the pike, is the White Rose City..(named after the English emblems of the Houses of York and Lancaster.)

[Screaming Lord Byron]

88. Raintown works, if a little obvious. Mine, of course, is Cowtown

[Bridget Burke]

89. "Baghdad on the Bayou"

Invented by the late gossip columnist Maxine Messinger. It's fallen into disfavor.

The Houston Press's Music Editor, John Nova Lomax, has lamented our city's reputation as "The Most UnHip City in the South".

[Aristus]

90. I used to live in Tacoma, "The City of Destiny"

which was a nickname used only by the town fathers and a few optimistic tourists. Now, I live in Puyallup, which should either be Freeperville North or City of a Million Pickup Trucks.

[Jokerman]

91. "Home of The 500"

Also known as "The World Capitol of Auto Racing"


Speedway Indiana


http://www.townofspeedway.org/

[burythehatchet]

92. Atlanta: The City too Busy to Hate

...but if things slow down a bit.....

[XNASA]

94. "The City of Big Shoulders"

"The Windy City"
"The Second City"
"The City That Works"
"Hog Butcher to the World"
"The City in a Garden" -- which is the official motto.

[RetroLounge]

96. Brew City

Milwaukee. Because of all the Breweries that were here.

Past tense.

Pabst: Closed.
Schlitz: Closed.
Miller: Owned by some South African Company.

[mark0rama]

101. You've still got Sprecher.

OK, it's not actually in Milwaukee city limits, but I'd count it.

[RetroLounge]

120. I like them better for their Root Beer...

But Sprecher is cool, yes.

[Ediacara]

97. Bozo

I used to live in the Emerald Jet City though

[Ediacara]

106. I should add that Bozo is not the official nickname :-)

It's probably something like "Gateway to Yellowstone" or something, but everyone calls Bozeman Bozo anyway :-)

[eileen_d]

116. It's official in some quarters!

(just kidding - from a fellow Montanan)

[TrogL]

98. Dreadful Valley

[HuckleB]

99. City of Roses, Stumptown, Rip City, Bridgetown, Little Beirut...

Puddletown,
City of Bridges,
Bridgeport,
Munich on the Willamette,
River City,
Beervana....

So, I guess Portland has a few of 'em. Take your pick.

[eileen_d]

100. "Tragic City"

LOL, that's just my own nickname. It's actually another "Magic City" (the third on this thread, so far)

[ronnykmarshall]

102. WeHo

West Hollywood, CA.

[Whitacre D_WI]

103. Take a guess:

I originally hail from the City of Roses (not Portland).

My hometown is half an hour from the Gem Gity, an hour and a half from Porkopolis, and three hours from the Forest City.

Where am I from?

[mark0rama]

111. Springfield, Ohio

Google rocks! (it was Porkopolis that helped most)

[Whitacre D_WI]

112. Cheater, cheater, pumpkin-eater.

Yeah, I know, I would've done the same thing.

[KamaAina]

105. The Queen City of the Pacific

not like there's a great deal of competition in these time zones...

As a New York expat, I kind of like "The Big Pineapple" myself :-)

[ohiosmith]

108. Sin City baby-Las Vegas

[Kolesar]

109. "the City of Eternal Road Construction"

actually, that was a National Lampoon quip about Buffalo. Cleveland is the Forest City because it was so verdant. I think we should take all these stupid slogans off the Ohio license plates and just replace them with one word: "Verdant".

[BringEmOn]

114. Spokaloo

Spokane: In the Spokane Indian language "Children of the Sun."

[Bombero1956]

117. Paper City

Holyoke Mass. The city of Homes Springfield,Mass and for the kinky Whip City Westfield,Mass.

[Piperay]

119. City of Angels...

is Los Angeles. O8)

[salmonhorse]

124. My home town...

:bounce:

[salmonhorse]

123. There're two for Sacramento:

River City & Tree City; though with Arnold here now I'm sure there will be another sometime soon...

:shrug: